Amazon.com’s feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google, the leading search engine, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages within books. It can also…
Spiritual Transformation in the Halls of High Technology [http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/index.htm] – Kraig Brockschmidt [http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/AbouttheAuthor.htm], former employee of Microsoft wrote this draft copy for his (new) book. Not sure if its been published yet or not but its very interesting. Its…
Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs [http://labs.google.com/] has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers [http://labs.google.com/papers.html]?on stuff like Data Mining,?Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more. Some…
Rory [http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/1303.aspx] on PDC 2003 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/]: “Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought …” Got me thinking, maybe this ?should have said “I…
Where did some of the most heard and renowned computer software & hardware companies get their names from? Here’s [http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php] an interesting look at the origin of corporate brands from Adobe to 3M: http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php…